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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Fitzsimons, Eleanor
Titre(s) : Wilde's women [Texte imprimé] : how Oscar Wilde was shaped by the women he knew / Eleanor Fitzsimons
Publication : London ; New York : Duckworth overlook, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-372 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that 'there
should be no law for anybody' made him a staunch defender of gender equality.Throughout
his life from his relationship to his extraordinary mother Jane and the tragedyof
his sister Isola's early death to his accomplished wife Constance and a coterie of
other free-thinking writers, actors and artists, women were a central aspect of his
life and career. Wilde's Women is the first book to tell the story of his female friends
and colleagues who traded witticisms with Wilde but also give him access to vital
publicity and whose ideas he gave expression through his social comedies.Author Eleanor
Fitzsimons reframes Wilde's story and his legacy through the women in his life including
such fascinating figures as Florence Balcombe who left him for Bram Stoker, actress
Lillie Langtry (for a while an inseparable friend) and his tragic and witty niece
Dolly who bore a strong resemblance to the writer and loved fast cars, cocaine and
foreign women.Full of fascinating detail and anecdotes Wilde's Women relates the untold
story of how the writer played a vitally sympathetic role on behalf of many women
and how they supported him in the midst of a Victorian society in the process of changing
forever
Sujet(s) : Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) -- Femmes
Indice(s) Dewey :
822.8 (23e éd.) = Théâtre de langue anglaise - 1837-1899 [critique]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-7156-4936-7 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44500373x
Notice n° :
FRBNF44500373
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